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    France and Algeria
    A History of Decolonization and Transformation

    Phillip Naylor (Author)

    9781477328439, University of Texas Press

    Hardback, published 11 June 2024

    488 pages, 2 maps
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.794 kg

    The virtues of Naylor’s book are the broad scope of his account and the informative detail of his narrative . . . This work will be necessary reading for anybody interested in twentieth-century France and Algeria or the history of decolonization.
    (American Historical Review)
    Naylor has demonstrated brilliantly the interconnectedness of the histories of Algeria and France throughout the post-colonial era. His framework of analysis enables a fresh look at the often complex and convoluted relations between the two countries after 1962 . . .  [He] adeptly combines a sophisticated theoretical approach with solid empirical research that is presented in a smooth narrative style that carries the reader through the argument.
    (Peace & Change)
    This revised edition by Naylor is well worth acquiring.
    (CHOICE)

    An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter’s independence.

    While most related studies concentrate on the colonial era and Algeria's War of Independence, France and Algeria details the nations' postcolonial relationship. Phillip Naylor provides a philosophical approach, contending that France reformulated, rather than repudiated, “essential” strategic values during decolonization. It thus continued to pursue grandeur and independence, especially with regard to the Third World and Algeria, an essentialism that expedited France’s postcolonial transformation. But as a new nation, Algeria needed to pursue the “existential” project of self-definition. It became involved in state-building while also promulgating socialism, and it recognized how French oil concessions in the Sahara impeded its independence, leading to the industry's postcolonial decolonization. Finally, the postcolonial relationship has featured a human dimension involving immigrants, pieds-noirs (colonial settlers), and harkis (Algerian soldiers loyal to France), all of them central to bilateral relations.

    In this revised and updated edition of his seminal work, first published over twenty years ago, Naylor expands his coverage of the decolonization era, drawing on new information while continuing to study the ever-evolving relationship between the two countries. These new additions expose the continually shifting relations of power, perception, and identity between the two states.

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